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THE FORECAST: Flora Paradise

Start the new year with a punch of floral and don’t be scared to overload with pink. Pink is back and confident as ever. Create your own pretty in pink jungle by layering different textures like woven rattan with the Bamboo light by Daphna Laurens. Pair it up with the Windy Armchair by Angeletti Ruzza Design, it is self-confident and casual in its design which...
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An Investigative Designer – revisited

The Connecticut home of Victoria’s Secret model Hana Soukupová and her business magnate husband Drew Aaron is the stuff of designer legend – a showcase for the duo’s extensive collection of contemporary art, which includes works by Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, not to mention an array of extraordinary midcentury furnishings by such masters as Jean Royère and Charlotte Perriand. The man for the...
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Ahmedabad house India

Located in Ahmedabad, Mumbai India, the architecture deploys strategies to mitigate the intense heat. Designed by SPASM Architects, an organic plan bound by massive rammed earth walls with high thermal mass, and courtyards with vertical pivoting wooden louvers, top hung windows with mesh inserts keeps out mosquitoes and allows natural cooling. Apart from these measures, sprinklers activate on timers...
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Sri Lankan response – revisited

Combining an office and residence of an architect, located by a marsh in Rajagiriya Sri Lanka, the property sits on an urban fringe near a series of high-rise buildings close to the main road. In response the building is designed like a fortress sealed from the Colombo heat with specially designed double screens to limit western and southern exposure, traffic and road noise, however once...
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An Updated English Manor – revisited

Marshcourt, hidden in the  Hampshire landscape to the southwest of London, is nothing if not eccentric. To begin with, it is built of chalk, a material that had not been in regular use for two centuries at the time of its construction—in the early 1900s—and certainly not for a 12-bedroom country house. A mix of Tudor and Jacobean features (panelled rooms, carved staircases, mullioned windows) with...
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Sydney Twin Peaks – revisited

A Queen Anne style residence reveals its hidden character and history in the late night lights.  Two crisp zinc roof gables, observing the shadows on the narrow footpath, guard the new entry door. The early 1900s bricks, shingles and Elizabethan windows have been a theatre for three generations of the same family. Following a failed total rebuild design by a different architect,
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the hidden house – Sydney revisited

Park Street is a simple and robust dwelling located in Sydney Australia built to accommodate a young family and their evolving needs. Natural material choices, a limited palette and inter-linked garden spaces engaging living experience in the daily lives of the occupants. A former tennis court site, shaped like a ‘battle-axe’, presented a unique opportunity for Jackson Clements Burrows....
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Seaside Sophistication – revisited

With summer fast approaching here in Australia, my attention turns a sublime seaside home by Connecticut-based designer Mar Silver. Having been brought on by the owners to update the twenty-year Southport home, Silver approached the renovation with the sophisticated yet relaxed vibe for which her work has become known. One main focus of the re-design was to open the house up...
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Australian Rural Luxury revisited

When I first meet Brae's head chef Dan Hunter I was captivated by his holistic and passionate approach to food. This same philosophy has been extended to the newly erected accommodation evidenced by the appreciation of the handcrafted, collaborative design process, agricultural building typologies and local, sustainably sourced materials. The overall experience is one of rural luxury. Situated on a 30 acre farm...
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Whale Beach simplicity revisited

Located in Whale Beach NSW Australia, from this simple layout, the design sought to reinforce the clarity of space and celebrate the interaction of the elements, surfaces, and materials: steel, timber, and glass. Designed by Nick Belle D&A , when viewed from the beach and surrounds, the charcoal, and timber palette ensures an understated recessive presence in keeping with the...
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